10 actors who played opposite gender roles flawlessly (With Pictures)

8. Linda Hunt

This little wonder woman is of just 1.45 meters, but she is a huge package, known for her powerful acting, and her rich and resonant voice which she has lent to various documentaries, commercials and cartoons, including the animated musical film Pocahontas. In the 1982 movie The Year of Living Dangerously, she played Billy Kwan, a Chinese-Australian male photographer, for which she chopped her hair off, dyed it black, shaved her eyebrows and padded her waist. She was the first woman to be honoured with an Academy Award for her playing a character of a different gender than her own.